BUND NEW ZEALANDERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12637, 23 May 1919, Page 3

BUND NEW ZEALANDERS.

ABOUT TWENTY ALL TOLD. WORK AT ST DUNSTAN’S. A suggestion that the Red Cross of Rew Zealand should help Si Dunstan’s Hospital for the Blind in London was made at yesterday’s meeting of the executive by Mr E- Nordon, who stated that Sir Arthur Rearson was finding the greatest diiiiculty in getting funds by which the institution could be carred on, and the children of blind soldiers cared lor. in a brief discussion it was stated that the hospital was already helped by the Loudon Society, but the chairman was asked to brine the matter before the Wellington cutive. > General Richardson, at the dose of his address to Rod Cross workers a little later in the afternoon, was asked about the position of St Dunstan’s Hospital, and he stated that the blind New Zealand soldiers, of whom there were about twenty, were still there, and would be kept there until they had been taught to earn their own'living. That usually took from one to two years. ‘‘These hoys are happy.” the General said “I suppose of all the classes of wounded men 1 have gone to visit there is not a happier hodv of men than the blind men at St Dunstan’s.” tie added that if anybody was ever asked to support St Dunstan’s he hoped they would not hesitate to do so, became it had done so much for the boys from New Zealand.